Improvement in hooks and etes



No. 60,026. PATENTED 1510127, 1866.

J. B. MARTIVNDALEL HOOK AND EYE.

' To WHOM ITMAY oononnm -uitth tetra gadget ift movrmnm m nooxs AND EYES.

JAMES B. MARTINDA'LE; OF EW CASTLE, INDIANA. Lettm Patent No; 60,026, ma 1mm 27,1866.

sPEcIFIcATioN;

Be it known thatI, J. B. Mmmmm, of New Castle, Henry county, Indians," have ,invented certain new and useful improvements in Hooks and Eyes for clothing; and-I do hereby declare the following to be a. full,

clear, and exact description of the seine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon. In the drawingst t Figure 1 represents my improved hook and eye connected. Figure 2 represents atop view of the same detached; Figure 3 is n side'view of the hook; and Figure 4 is e sid'eview of the eye.

To enable those skilled in thesrt to construct my improved hook and eye, I will proceed to describe the same.

k The hook and eye are hoth constructed of herdenedwire of suitable size, and they are formed ss-follows: The hook has at each end of the wire of--which"it iscomposed loops, to, by which it is attached; wheu used,

the wire is bent to the form shown in figs, I andZ, the central portion being turned back, forming an elongated hook, b, curved at c. The eye has similar loops, a a, at the cadet .the wire of which it is formed, for a like purpose. The wire is bent to the form shown in figsland 2,". presenting three curved projections, c, d, ande; theexterior loops, e e, are just wide enough to receive the shank of the hook at c. 'The tongue, d, projects alittle further beyond the ends of the loops, ee, than-the length of the hook path-6, as turned back from the shank of the hook. The tongue, d, is turned slightly up from the-planeof the eye, as shown in iig 4. When the hook is inserted; in 'theeye the bar, 6, passes over and presses down the tongue, d. When th'hook is fully inserted in the eye it will not casually become. disengsged, because when the hook is pressed beck the part 6 is forced under the tongue, 'd, of "the eye. -;In e'r'derto disengsge the eye and hook,the tongue, d, must be pressed down and the end of the eye at a a be slightly raised or inclined upward by depressing theother end of the eye,

when the hook will be resdilydisengaged, the part b passing over the tongue, d.

Whct'I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I A.hook formed as described, and sn-eye havingloops, c e, and a tongue 41, when respectively constructed and arranged to operate, when combined, substantially as and for the purpose set. forth. I

JAMES B. MARTINDALE.

Witnesses:

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